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This is true, and while the wind on average per the year isn't that bad, the wind is worse in the winter... and also that is average, the wind speeds are routinely 25-30mph, but then will be still for a few days...
The record windchill for chicago is -57 degrees fahrenheit on Christmas Eve 1983.
You also have day time highs in Chicago that don't break 0.
This is double folded in Chicago, because when the temperature drops very low, that usually means the winds are picking up as a prevailing arctic front is coming in... so 0 degrees is usually accompanied by at least a 15-20 degree wind.
you can see the Chicago area on this map vs the rest of the state.
That and so much of the population is right on an open lake...
yea agreed i can take the cold with no wind.
but the wind just makes my body shake. its a unprovoked Harlem shake.
but the wind just makes my body shake. its a unprovoked Harlem shake.
I agree. The cold, even if it's only like 5 degrees with no wind, I can totally handle it. It's the wind that is the doozey. It actually hurts to be outside when it gets windy.
To be honest most of the city doesn't get that windy. It's more by the lake and in downtown. Sometimes walking in downtown in the winter can be terrible as the buildings create monster winds. Same goes for the lake. However when you go further out it's actually not too bad. You will get a slight wind.
This is why I refuse to live so close to the lake! Just too brutal come winter.
Also I believe central illions is worse. I spent a couple of years in Champaign-Urbana, the winters there were hell! Now there was place that was truly windy and you couldn't escape it! It was everywhere. For the first time in my life I wanted to be back in Chicago for winter!
At least in Chicago you could cope by finding lots of things to do in the city. In Champaign-Urbana it was torture.
Chicago is not snowier. Yes it is colder, but not snowier. I don't think it's a landslide, but I don't think it's too close either.
Those are the weather bureau numbers for the median snow in Chicago and Central Park NY. How are they wrong?
I lived in a place vastly more snowy than either...Rochester NY. But I have little doubt that Chicago is snowier. NY gets an occasional big one but not the steady small storms.
Those are the weather bureau numbers for the median snow in Chicago and Central Park NY. How are they wrong?
I lived in a place vastly more snowy than either...Rochester NY. But I have little doubt that Chicago is snowier. NY gets an occasional big one but not the steady small storms.
NYC doesn't get any snow at all besides the snowstorms. We basically get 2 snowstorms dumping 10-15 inches each bringing the average to like 27 inches, and then no snow for the rest of the winter.
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